One of them is an issue I've thought about a lot: is, and how if so, the experience of physical and or sexual abuse different for a gifted child? If you are wondering why you should read it, there are a couple of aspects of the book that make the story even more harrowing, but also a must read. If you think this is a heartbreaking story, you are right. Little J.D's parents also let another person -someone the boy refers to as "the bad man" repeatedly molest and even rape their small son.
Just to mention some examples: they starve him they talk to him in ways and with words he cannot comprehend, they beat him and, then, some more for crying out they lie to him constantly and manipulate his young mind so that he perceives himself as purely evil: every time his mother or father get mad, it's his fault every time he resists -in the way any normal child would- to some of their abusive requests and behaviors, it's "the badness" inside him acting. Instead, this man and woman treat the boy as if he does not deserve human status. This book shows us vignettes in the life of little 5-year old J.D., a boy emotionally, physically and sexually abused by those with the strongest obligation to protect him and raise him to know right from wrong: his parents.
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